Flat Earth Megastructures
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- Natural worlds may be spheres, but flat planets and other strange shapes could be built with sufficient technology... but what advantages would they have over a globe?
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Credits:
Megastructures: Flat Earths
Episode 162, Season 4 E48
Writers
Isaac Arthur
Editors:
Daniel McNamara
Darius Said
Keith Blockus
Matthew Acker
Producer:
Isaac Arthur
Cover Artist:
Jakub Grygier www.artstation...
Graphics Team:
Bryan Versteeg spacehabs.com
Jarred Eagley
Jeremy Jozwik www.artstation...
Justin Dixon
Katie Byrne
Ken York of YD Visual / ydvisual
Mike Munt of Apogii www.apogii.uk
Sergio Botero www.artstation...
Narrator:
Isaac Arthur
Music Manager:
Luca DeRosa - lucaderosa2@live.com
Music:
Markus Junnikkala, "We Roam the Stars" www.markusjunn...
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Chris Zabriskie, "The Temperature of the Air on the Bow of the Kaleetan" chriszabriskie.com
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Serena Elis, "Science" / serenaelis
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Just a reminder, this is not a Flat Earth Theory episode, the title makes that as clear as it can be, what with 'megastructure' and the plural 'Earths' :) We don't actually need tons of comments bemoaning the Flat Earth theory or how silly it is, remember this is SFIA, nobody here subscribes to that concept, anyone who shows up claiming to be is either a lying troll seeking attention or has a learning disability, arguing with them or mocking them serves no good end.
mocking them is pretty edifying
Just ask if they are AI... Blows their mind
The fact that you even need to REclarify this. Still SMH, lol
Love and watch all of your videos Isaac keep up the great work!
Its Ok the government doesnt allow him to acknowledge the earths flatness, I get this cheek in tounge way of telling us that earth really is flat
Isaac Arthur the consummate peace keeper. You are correct though, I'd hate to see the least toxic comment section on UA-cam devolve into that nonsense.
Breeding the giant turtles would be the most difficult biological task ever attempted by humanity.
And the four elephants???? ;-)
start by crossing turtles with elephants, then blue whales, etc
Ol
and machine gun wielding Nazi penguins.
I think there were episode about space whales, maybe you can make space turtles similar way?
FAKE! No turtles in picture!
Or elephants.
And no wizards leaning off the edge. Fake and gay.
Flat Earth Engineer: We haven't managed to breed them this huge yet. Stupid slow Gengineers...
"Globe earth has members all across the disc!"
Globe world society - 2718
:D win!
stongduke
Card carrying member!
haha
😄😄😄
If Isaac Arthur was a Flat-Earther:
"How could we build a Spheric Earth?"
Der Typ you misspelled sphewic eawth.
@@AelundTwitch The difference between somebody who believes that we already live on a flat earth and somebody who wants to build a flat earth is the same as between a sovereign citizen and ACLU attorney.
I don't dare look it up, for fear of what type of vids UA-cam will suggest I watch next!
Tactical Jackson mahn heee tolkon gibgish
@@phoule76 lol
This would make a cool premise for a scifi novel where one civilization lives on the natural light side, and another lives on a technologically dystopian dark side of the disc.
Call it Coinworld and call the light side the most ostentatious word for "Head" you can find, and the dark side the most nasty sounding word for "Reverse" with a slang name that literally translates as "Backside" in the toilet humor sense of the word.
Haha I saw both "Isaac Arthur" and "Flat Earth" in my notifications and had a near panic attack. I thought "dear lord, they've somehow gotten to him..."
oh yeh have litle faith :p
Cluckery Duckery I thought the same I was going to unsubscribe lmao
We knew this was going to be covered eventually, and it was on the schedule. I was looking forward to this, because any scientific breakdown of how to actually build a flat earth just highlights how fallacious the idea that Earth is itself flat. For example, we'd be able to see those giant mass pipes with seismological returns. We could also successfully do the "Laser" experiment, and have direct laser based communication from Hamilton (New Zealand) to Jaén (Spain).
I'm going to keep this video on a quick link or maybe even as a QR code I can quickly share to folks.
That's not the first time Isaac talked about flat earth, it was already overviewed.
If I.A. said it I'd be freaked out that maybe he was right...
I wonder if there are/would be people living on a flat planet who would convince themselves they are living on a oblate spheroid?
Well if they made the flat planet, they would also have space travel.
Thus could easily see it from a distance and conclude it's flat. XD
there* planet,*
I blame you for all this F.E. nonsense.
Stop commenting on every science related stuff. You won't get famous until you have talent.
@@AmritZoad I can make him famous with a couple of nails, some lumber, and maybe a hammer or large rock.
I wanted to make a joke about this episode bit it fell flat.
bum bum, chee.
🤦🏽♀️
BOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
Get out.
Great, now we'll have this uninformed Fringe element living on the flat Earth convincing people it's really round. The round Earth society. Being man made, that's just a conspiracy they'll say.
"We´ll discuss this more in 'Making Suns', early next year..."
Sentences like this, casually thrown in, are the reason I really love SFIA! :D
Fascinating idea, but I don't think it can work without the World-turtle (or turtles all the way down) and four or five giant elephants.
"Strata" m8. It was one of Pratchett's first books, an affectionate parody of Niven's Ringworld where the creators built a discworld.
@@harbl99 Thanks. "Strata" had slipped my memory. I still don't remember the story details but I do remember enjoying reading it. I'll have to seek it out.
Don't be absurd. We live in a dark city run by aliens.
It's clear @spanos knows too much Mr Quick. Please begin the Tuning...
If the Turtle was a station/ship and and the Elephants were part of an active support system or some such. Then I'd say we could build a Disc World. The only reason to build one would be as aa Tourist attraction or out of a sense of the ridiculous, I would think.
It's like deciding to build a Death Star. Do we need one? Nope. Would we build one if we had the spare cash? LOL, someone would. Forgetting the heat or recoil problems, we did find a... plasma something or other that allows beams to be combined... So you can tell the Emperor that the Death Star superlaser research is on track!
Me: *sees video title*
oof this comment section is gonna be spicy
More like sea lion poison.
More like clean as a whistle. Here enter mostly grownups. 😋
@@gumunduringigumundsson9344 At least 99.9% of people on earth are *not* terrorists (and that's a really lowballing it), but 9/11 still happened.
Prepare for a-salt
@@hectorandem2944 I watched that terrible thing happen live in my dorm after we came back from hiking. When they fell I shouted NO WAY! They cant collapse that neatly wothout assistance. So I made an hypothesis there and then to the gang I said it was assisted straight down. Of course. You do not build big and high like that surrounded by what could become a "dominos" effect i random directions ... not the food kind. In real and responsible life you try to avoid tellibg ppl that most skyscrapers have a built in "straight down collapse'o steelvapers".Better not tell the public we have "bombs" (nanothermite probably ( I guessed regular thermite at first)) in most high structures.. but it ia very neccesary I'd say to avoid at huge costs a thing like the two WTC falling more or less sideways taking half the city with them.. I guessed that never gave it a prior or later thought. Its too weird that whole 9/11 buainess. But perhaps out of respect for the fallen and theyre closest we should not be talking about it so lightly or even in a comedically hirrible attempt at a 5 cent humor vessel aha! 😋🍌
I doubt anyone subscribed to isaac would be a flattie but search engines are a thing and keywords will lead them.
Gotta gear up before I dive further down the comments.
* dons facepalming mittens and forehead protector *
Let’s go.
I've noticed a number of comments referencing the traditional flat earth conspiracy. Personally, I don't believe in the flat earth conspiracy. I'm not just saying that the Earth isn't flat, but that the modern, technological people who truly believe the earth is flat aren't real either. I suspect the majority of those who claim to believe in a flat earth are just trolling and hoping for a reaction. Or possibly it is a conspiracy of people who need a persistent straw man so they create the myth of true believers in a flat earth; I will call this hypothesis the flat earth conspiracy conspiracy.
"I suspect the majority of those who claim to believe in a flat earth are just trolling and hoping for a reaction."
I'm afraid that's a somewhat naive belief.
You can't discount the intersection of mental illness with conspiracy theorists that are true believers. I suspect there is also a disconnect between people who automatically make an effort to put the world and ideas into rational terms and those people who think their gut tells them more than anybody's brain to paraphrase a certain atypically hued individual.
"people who truly believe the earth is flat aren't real either."
Sadly i once met a flatard by accident on a birthday-party... 2 girls that just came back from a holiday-trip to the other side of the world..... of course i asked them if they ever looked at the night sky there and wondered why the southern hemisphere sees different stars and those are the same no matter if you are in australia, argentinia or Mdagaskar. The answer was predictable : "God made it so to mislead the non believers and test the faithful"
That's what a lot of people said about trump.
I'm not just saying that the Earth isn't flat,. So you are an idiot!!
Why is anyone surprised by this video? This is NOT the first time Isaac has discussed how one would make a flat earth. I knew exactly what it would be about when I saw the title.
Great episode as always. Now to go watch it again to make sure I didn't miss anything.
Yeah really, I don't have a good memory so if even me remember that I have to wonder if people are using those videos in a sleeping routine or in a dedicated learning/discovering process.
@@PainterVierax I mean... I'm not going to say that I don't use Isaac's videos to help fall asleep. Doesn't stop me from eagerly anticipating every Arthursday, though.
Well, there it is. The final step of a Flat Earther. "Don't let your dreams be dreams! Nothing is impossible! JUST! DO! IT!"
leave it to
Isaac Arthur, to actrully make a Flat earth model that works XD
Believe in something, even if it costs you everything
Which side are the elephants supposed to go on?
What do think about flat Earth people using the term "atmosphere"?
Should it be atmoslayer?
Nope.. that sounds too cool.
Flatmosphere?
No that still says sphere..
Atmosdisc?..
They ought to say "atmosplane".
Atmoblanket !
atmo-slayer :/
I claim atmoslayer in the name of the oblate spheroid earth!
Aerodome?
🤔
That could be an interesting sci-fi idea, an artificial flat earth is forgotten by it's makers, new intalegent creatures evolve there, and when they discover gravitational rules they have the realisation that their planet was arteficial
תומר פלח not sure if you would get this but watch dark city.
Holy shit dude, this idea is great
Terry pratchett has a book with the old tech flat earth idea. Should be called strata
Small Gods by Terry Pratchett had the theocratic dictatorship that insisted the world was a sphere, in spite of the reality that the world was a disc carried on the back of 4 elephants on the back of a space turtle.
Yes, he was fond of playing with that idea in other books too, I was thinking of that when writing the closing line for the episode. Though actually Small Gods is probably my least favorite Discworld novel, with emphasis on 'least favorite', Pratchett' was a master of his art rivaled only by Douglas Adams.
@@isaacarthurSFIA you have to pick an actually famous author. R. L. Stein for instance.
Kyle Brown, it's nothing compared to Enid Blynton.
@@kylebrown4978 what did you mean if you remember?
one kind of "habitat" that i find interesting would be an O'neill cylinder completely filled with water. it would be fascinating to see what kind of ecology would live in such an environment and how you would provide energy to the system.
Maybe lamp-like bio-luminescent plants that draw energy from a thermal vent like artificial structure. this would also cause the ocean "floor" to be the highly lit part and the "deep sea" would be low to no gravity in the center of the cylinder.
Most of the comments on this video is about how the comments are going to be interresting.
Remember people, this comment section is mostly made up by people who are intelligent enough to realize that the earth is round
Pfff why can't the earth be flat and round at the same time. The edge is round obviously.
_"why can't the earth be flat and round at the same time"_
it can, on the TIMECUBE!
o/ Endelig begynt å se på isaac Arthur?
@@radarsneers6702 Gjort det en stund nå
@@radarsneers6702 Gjörðu svo vel að hlýða vel á þessa rás, vinur nýr. Sæll og blessaður.
Wouldn't it be easier to build a smaller disk (one small enough that it's own gravity is negligible) orbiting the Sun at a distance where the pull of the Sun's gravity is equal to Earth's surface gravity, making it possible for people to stand on the side of the disk facing away from the Sun and getting sunlight reflected in a controlled manner from mirrors, while the other side that's facing the Sun is covered in solar panels which power everything those people use?
You may be interested in Isaac's video on "Colonizing the Sun," specifically the part discussing an orbital ring you could stand on, starting around 14:45 - ua-cam.com/video/0Ap4JhPoPQY/v-deo.html
You can't maintain a stable orbit at a speed where you would feel a net force like this on the far side, you might as well just use a bunch of solar panels and ion drives to maintain a fixed position relative to the larger object, or build some orbital rings.
That wouldn't work , on such a disk you would feel weightless, like on a space Station.
@@younscrafter7372 to feel a force pulling you down you would have to be very close to sun that your disc would be evaporating from the sunrays
If the disc is in orbit, you are too. It would be just like a space station.
Judging by the title this is going to be a good episode
good "episode" -> Comment section
@@johntheux9238 How about both?
@@kana2732 Whatever he said in the video it can't be as hilarous as flat hearther comments xD
@@kana2732 - welcome to SFIA!
" It makes me wonder if people on the flat earth will start conspiracy theories that they really live on a sphere" ROTFL
The thing is, they absolutely would. Flat earth is just the zenith of conspiracy-theory thinking. Seems to me that it completely stems from a priori assumptions that *they* (usually the jews) are hiding something from us, and a desire to be one of the few who can see past the charade that all the other 'sheeple' accept and get at some ultimate truth. Not to mention that half of them are religious fundamentalists, which... ech.
@@Raketemensch-fl3sv
I was with you until "religious fundamentalist."
Vince Lombardi was, in the classical sense of the term, a 'fundamentalist.'
So was Issac Newton.
So was Steve Jobs.
So is Elon Musk.
Being a 'fundamentalist' essentially means someone who emphasizes fundamentals. This isn't a bad thing as long as those fundamentals are the real basics of the discipline. So calling someone a 'religious fundamentalist' isn't pejorative unless one considers religion to be irrelevant or superfluous in the first place. Which, with regard to our species' cultural history up to this point, it isn't. So...
When flat earthers see this I think that they will think 1 of 3 things.
1: This is a video that is trying to debunked the flat earth.
2:This is a video that is trying to proves the earth is flat.
3:They will get bored and stop watching after 5 seconds.
symmetry I’d say the biggest danger is someone ripping off part of his video to make it looks like he supports it. You’d be surprised what trolls can do.
I have to disagree with point 3; Flattards can listen to Eric Dubious droning on for hours.
You... you assume they think ?
Hello comment of a previous account I had.
"I tend to believe anybody watching [this channel] believes the world is a sphere"
Brave of you
*Isaac calls the skin on pudding 'nasty'.*
Me: "Them's fighting words!'
So basically discworld is how you create Risa but have it actually work without magic since you could literally have the entire thing be the same climate. Then again I suspect if we were building vacation resorts that way there would probably be demand for others with different climate conditions, Alpine resort world and such. After all if you have literally trillions of people living and working in the inner solar system you probably do have billions of people that would love to go skiing on holiday and such.
Isaac hasn't describe how to make the giant turtles yet, that should an excellent bioengineering episode
And what about the Giants them selves?
@@AelundTwitch Personally I suspect there will still be some demand as there are many people that have serious enough questions regarding the lack of knowledge on the nature of consciousness to be uncertain about the ability to copy it without ultimately simply creating a whole new person that is not the same as the original even if they do start off with the same set of memories and believe otherwise as a result. Hell even I am in that boat despite being a technophile and generally materialist in my world view I still don't feel that I understand the nature of consciousness enough to bet my life on the idea that it can be copied without disruption. That said I'd probably be more open to the idea of trying it if my organic body was about to become an untenable host in the immediate future suddenly something that seems more like a coinflip chance of it still being you alive at the end of it sounds a lot more attractive than near certainty of death given the choice.
Sure it's likely that even in the absence of an actual solution to the problem of other minds sufficient to develop an experiment to actually prove persistence of consciousness such opinions would start to fall into an ever dwindling minority viewpoint as more and more generations start to grow up with mind uploading etc as a normal part of everyday life, hell wouldn't be the first major life affecting belief humans have adopted on mass through blind faith and being raised to believe the thing but it is going to be difficult to convince those that require some convincing scientific evidence for the persistence of consciousness upon copying to bet their life on such systems especially as both scientists and philosophers have been stumped by fundamental problems like objectively proving that the internal experiences of other minds even exist let alone proving that they continue as the same person after you copy them and terminate the original.
@@AelundTwitch Yeah for me it's not so much the philosophy that is the issue but more the question of what I personally would experience upon stepping into that machine, I am just not in any particular hurry to experience death first hand to me it's like a near infinite loss of other potential experiences in exchange for just one. As I say I would be more open to something like using a device to back up my mind every night while I sleep or something that would spin up if something happened to me, the payoff matrix is kinda different then you either wake up with up to a day worth of amnesia and win a second chance at life for the price of a few hours of memories (Hell I've had that happen without any mind uploading well except for the second chance part, it's called a heavy night drinking lol) or you remain dead and someone else wakes up thinking they are you but you never know about it at which point it wouldn't exactly affect you anymore.
@@seraphina985 The solution is to digitize or machinize your brain gradually over a course of time. If you replace a handful of neurons every now and then and you're still you, then you preserve the continuity of your consciousness as you transition into either a cyborg or a completely digital entity.
I hope a flat earthers don't find this video, they will go nuts over it.
Sooooooooo tempted to link it to their facebook page. :D
99% certain that flat earth is just a meme and only hand full of people takes it serious. Rest of the community is just for trolling and lulz.
Do not, I repeat DO NOT, overestimate humanity. There are already too many evidence to prove that our specie is not as brilliant as we might think.
i might go drop some links somewhere. Isaac can make some ad revenue off them after all and i want to see them lose their $%*#
while isaac's fans are obviously not flat earthers, they can certainly be lured in by the title, and spread by sharing. i think it would be a good thing
Flat Earths? I had to check if it was April 1st.
I thought the same!
Earth-chan is flat (And she not cry)
astrologymemes.com/i/flat-earth-confirmed-19826100
Obvious Warrior is English your second language?
Where the ringworld advocates at?
lol year me to
Oh. I get it now. The flat earthers are confused because they accidentally came here from an alternate reality where the earth is an artificial world.
They're having trouble adjusting, so they cling to what they remember.
XD
Is UA-cam going to send me down a flat Earth rabbit hole now?
Can't wait for Megastructures: dinosaur earths
next week: hollow flat earth
Agartha lol
think he touch on the subject of building underground, There is ruins of a city that was built underground think in Italy that could had house over 20,000 people
Provided that you can engineer a solution strong enough to support the empty space, that's actually one way to achieve constant surface gravity. If you curved it on the inside so that the majority of the empty space was towards the center (basically an ellipsoid void), you could accomplish such gravitational consistency, though you'd probably want a central beam that ran perpendicular to the flat side not only for support against collapse, but also to hold it together and prevent too much outward bulge.
You're brainwashed. The Earth is clearly calzone shaped.
Shaped like Trump's hair 🤣
When you suggested alternate geometries I couldn't help but think of a group of table top gamers getting together and arrangeing the construction of a full set of dice shaped planets.
Anyone thinking what I'm thinking? We should build Asgard.
NASA: *Makes flat Earth*
Flat Eathers: WE WERE RIGHT!!!!
MFW the Flat Earth Society will be a legitimate way of life in the far future.
It becomes a goal instead of a myth.
Be the change you want to see in the flat world.
Sir Isaac has no idea what he *unleashed* upon the comment section !
Indeed I think he has. As he examins all kinds of possible space colonization ideas he does this one as well. It's logical.
@@robinhyperlord9053 ???
I think flat-earthers will somehow use this as "ammunition" for their cause... despite NOT understanding a single word from whole Isaacs video :-D
you can use literally anything if all you do is sucking strawing arguments out of everything. there are no boundaries to dumb conspiracies.
Well they just need an engineering division and build it to checkmate the round world conspiracies.
Probably they will use the gravity mechanism that Isaac mentioned to explain why gravity is pointed down instead towards the center of the flat earth
@@YuriMaiaSFernandes As i understand it, they claim that gravity does not exist. Instead they propose a "theory" where everything "finds its level"... whatever that is.
@@volodyanarchist I already saw some flat earthers claiming that gravity is something real, but unable to understand why it will pointed towards the center in a realistic flat earth model instead down as we seem in reality
*NOOO ISAAC! YOU WERE MEANT TO DEFEAT THEM! NOT JOIN THEM!*
Good video btw :)
How would we genetically engineer the elephants and the turtle?
Let's be real, on this type of structure there would be a "sphere Earth" conspiracy.
So for us to live on a flat Earth we would need hyper-advanced technology, and to use many other 3D shapes to make it stable. Seems legit.
Every ep keeps getting better and better! First off, delightful ep, secondly I am so glad more people are making fun of flurfers, and in such a scholarly effort! Very impressive work by your graphics dept, almost zero stock footage this week!
Hey Aaron this is Ken of YD Visual, I did a bunch of the graphics for this episode; it was good fun. Better than stock footage eh!? haha
@@ydvisual5530 Oh wow! yeah well done Ken, you've done a lot to improve an already extremely high quality video! It makes a lot of the more complex bits, like ripple worlds clearer
@@aaronmcculloch8326 Thanks !
Lack of elephants and a turtle lets it all down.
Ankh-morpok, Lord Vetirani, Rincewind and all 😁
We should call that a Pratchett earth 😊
"It does make me wonder though, if any of those folks living on a Flat Earth might create conspiracy theories that they actually lived on a sphere."
LOL!
You just gave flerfers so many more graphics to use in their ridiculous videos. So funny.
I have a story set on artificial planets shaped like playing cards. It's populated by people who aren't aware that they're not natural. They base their entire culture on playing cards, by testing into suits (personalities/job classifications), roughing into the "wrong" suits, and trumping into higher ranks. They're shocked after they build a giant space telescope to learn that most planets are round.
My first thought was: "This episode is sponsored by Flat Earth Society"
Can you do an episode on Velociraptor Earths next?
Don't mind me. Just here to read the comments from flat earthers.
@@QuinSkew nAsA iS lYiNg. ThErEs No PrOoF oF cUrVaTuRe
@@QuinSkew lol
@@linyenchin6773 lol. Yes. I'm here for the flat gardeners.
@@horrificpleasantry9474 that's great. Lol
@@justinbiggs1005 WATER ALWAYS FINDS ITS LEVEL!!!!
Love your channel Issac! I always listen every Thursday while I'm working! You're the best ☺
Aww man... watching this is gonna skew the algorithm and make youtube start suggesting flat earther videos to me again, damnit. :(
wait, "again"??
next ep will be about the world turtle
i wantz reptilianz and niburu!!! then chemtrails and scientology facts :P
A bit late, but I was taking a nap. Now I have a snackk and coffee, ready for one of my favourite series in this channel and the first video I saw back when it started: megastructures.
I can't help feeling this would have been a great 1st April episode. :)
Wait a minute Isaac... You telling me our planet is NOT flat?!?! Whooo... Mind blown... Lol happy Arthursday!!!
lol! These flat earth comments are hilarious! Love the disclaimer from SFIA.
This is a fascinating concept! But it also brings up other questions, such as, could we build a cube, pyramid or other odd shaped planet? Could we build a stick planet extending several hundred thousand miles?
This is my favorite science channel because it answers questions I never knew I had. This is the first place I look when I want to find answers to questions such as what is the maximum possible rotation speed of a planet.
It's all fun and games until someone sends an series of RKMs to impact one side to flip the disc world like a coin
I'm all for the 'roulette world', or it could also be called a 'valley world', since its shape naturally curtails fluid loss off of the habitable surface. Also, the immense towering rise in the center leading to a peak where there is perpetual twilight, neither day nor night, has a monarchial fantasy appeal to me.
On flat earth there will be round-earth society that still stuck on their archaic thinking about the shape of their world, mark my word...
Great Episode, Isaac. I always look forward to your videos, and this one was really intriguing. Thanks for doing what you do!
Why you build a flat Earth:
Send the flat Earthers there
~"No turtle?"
"Flat tards so angry!"
"Happy Arthursday."
No actual flatearthers.~
The entirety of this comment section, no need to keep scrolling. You're welcome.
now how do we build a velociraptor shaped planet?
Dutch people rejoice! we can build the perfect place :D
inb4 comet snow threatens to flood the whole thing.
How big would a world turtle like Great A'Tuin need to be to have normal earth gravity on its shell?
Been waiting for this one! Whoo Hoo!
Woud like to see a video on Mega Structures on Earth, like a highway connecting Alaska to Russia maybe 3 levels, on for high speed train, second level for cars, Third for trucks, Have it where there will be three lanes each way, another lane for emergency vehicles, it can in inside a tube so the weather wil not affect it.. Another once can be from Florida to Cuba and the other islands
I just have to wonder what "The Santa Claus Machine" will be about. Sounds like an unusual episode to say the least.
3d printing
Where do the 4 World Elephants and the Great A'Tuin go?
Very informative... happy Arthur's day everybody!
I forgot it's thursday. Nice reminder in the form of an Isaac Arthur video!
Well that was different. Cool and interesting, but definitely different. I loved the science.
See's title.. gets popcorn for comments section
As fascinating as the idea of constructing a flat earth is, I still have to wonder:
What's to stop all the cats from knocking things off it?
I'll... I'll show myself out, sorry...
I wonder if flat earthers will use this video to explain how "flat earth" works...
Few hours ago, my son was born. Now a new SFIA video? Haven't even notice it's thursday already. Good day today.
Congratulations !
@@isaacarthurSFIA Oh thank you. I only hope he'll learn english soon enough to be able to watch your videos with me soon. 3yo daughter still prefers Czech for naratives.
I would project four holographic elephants and a turtle on one side.
From strength to strength, Isaac! More than a few thought-provoking ideas in here.
The thumbnail reminds me of the dome ships the Andalite race uses from the Animorphs series.
We need follow up episodes on the D20 planet Gygax, the advantages of living on various corporate logos, and coin replicas. :)
Artifexian?
Yes
First upload containing 'flat' earth(+s) i liked instantly!
A flat earth would be a gravitational nightmare without some kind of gravity creating device.
Arthur great episode. One request. Can you prepare an episode for what you consider Clark tech? And if we ever going to reach suchlike tech.
bill florina Great idea. He has covered some. would be fun to have a whole episode of it though.
Now think about turtle and elephants.
Ya! Send all the flat earth believers to a discworld!, half of them will start believing the Discworld is actually a sphere...
You're Right😂
Using mountains as a Circum-Fence, Thank you Terry Pratchet.
Oh come on, everyone knows the earth is a pyramid. Why do you think we kept building them? :p
Lol , I'm here for the comments XD
the only video where someone talks about a flat Earth and I agree
As a Geoscientist I am a bit dismayed Isaac. Apart of the outer core most of the Earth is solid. Yes the Mantle deforms in a ductile manner similar to a fluid, but that is due to the high pressures there making cracking and fissures impossible. Always a downer to see how wide spread the Idea is that only the Crust ist solid.
Not really the point be aimed for, the layer we live on is a tiny bit of habitable, the rest is murderous, and going into details about phases of matter outside of the core ones in their simplest form is a little to detailed for a quick side comment, we discuss it a bit more in January's Subterranean Cities
@@isaacarthurSFIA Hey, it's the first Time I found something I had grounds to criticize, in a long time of watching your Videos. Which certainly is a testament to the Channels Quality. Keep up the good work Isaac. Really looking forward to the January Video then.
If it's "similar to a fluid", can we really call it "solid" ?
Pasty ?
@@musaran2 Yes we can.The Rocks are build up of visible Crystals, each with a proper crystalline latice and everything. You know how Marble often has swirl like forms and patterns? They are swirls. Because the stuff did flow - just in solid phase. We are also talking about flow in a very very slow manner here. It is not pasty at all. If we where able to drill a Tunnel down there without internal cladding so you could touch the stuff it would be just as hard as surface rock. It is just all the pressure from all sides keeping any form of fissure from opening, and thus prohibiting brittle Deformation.
@@Levora You didn't really find anything to complain about, you're just being pedantic and didn't want to accept that Issac was making a little side comment that most people have probably forgotten about already.
Build a tower on the "North pole", dial down gravity in that location to build high enough to use the tower as a light house. Sun and Moon on that tower. On for the other side as well. You only need light. It doesn't have to perfectly emulate nature.
*Flat-Earth Society wants to know your location*
The visual artwork is amazing!
Isaac: "trigger warning"